Re: gitk next/prev buttons

>> The "next" and "prev" buttons are lacking consistency and logic. For LTR
>> languages previous is almost always on the left, and next on the right. The
>> words are contradictory, "next" actually goes to backwards chronologically,
>> and "prev" goes forward. Could the positions of the buttons be switched and
>> the text be replaced with "earlier" and "later"? This would make the
>> reference time not just order, and would mean the updated UI would not be
>> confused with the previous one.
>
> I agree with you here (I like "older" and "newer" myself).
>
> In theory gitk accepts the same arguments as "git rev-list", and in theory
> you should be able to use things like --reverse to get the commits in a
> different order.
>
> However, in practice I don't think anyone futzes with the ordering much with
> gitk.  gitk even ignores the --reverse and --timestamp options, and I've had
> a hard time getting gitk to display commits in an order where "older" and
> "newer" would not make sense.

>> Also, the arrow-only next/previous buttons (beside the commit ID) should
>> really point up and down. Horizontal directions are ambiguous for navigation
>> of a vertical list.
>
> Here I don't agree.  These arrows are purely about history navigation.  They
> don't have anything to do with "up" or "down" in the list.  In that sense
> they're more like the arrows in your web browser.